Roller derby isn’t just a very entertaining spectacle, it’s a real athletic endeavor — as anyone who saw the national WFTDA championships earlier this month at the 1stBank Center could tell you. Or just listen to Pet Scoop: Despite the crazy names and eccentric themes, roller derby is definitely a…
Stuffing turkey and mashed potatoes in your face is an American tradition on Thanksgiving. But this year, you can also try something new by participating in an Eastern tradition: yoga. Whole Yoga is offering a special Thanksgiving morning class to unwind and get some light exercise before a busy day…
Colorado Inside Out, the public-affairs roundtable that Colorado Public Television (then KBDI) launched twenty years ago, takes a look at current events every week. And once a year, it takes a very long look back at far-from-current events, in a program that sends the panelists into the past. These annual…
Fresh Art Studios has had the same name for a while, but photographer Terri Bell wanted to bring new awareness to the venue, so the resident artists, including three new ones, are putting up Fresh Art for the Holidays. “It’s a big open house, and everyone is cordially invited,” Bell…
Downtown Denver gets its holiday switch flipped tonight as the City and County Building, Union Station, the 16th Street Mall and various other spots light up for the city’s Grand Illumination ceremony. We”re talking big bulb numbers: Nearly 900,000 lights will be strung from rooftop to lamppost in this annual…
The new partnership between the dance company Control Group and the LIDA Project theater troupe at the spanking-new Laundry on Lawrence might not make a ripple in the mainstream cultural world, but it does suggest an auspicious team-up on the alternative plane, especially in Denver, where fringe-y performance isn’t the…
You can always expect something a little out of the ordinary from Andrew Novick, whose Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast pop-up store popped open again earlier this fall at the mid-century emporium Mod Livin’. As always, GGPT is swimming with Asian pop imports and Gothic Lolita-wear, but at least for today,…
In tough economic times, there’s safety in numbers for independent boutiques showcasing local artists and designers: That’s the thinking behind Denver Independent Boutiques, a new, small and growing congregation of retail entrepreneurs launched recently by Meghan Throckmorton of Rakun, a Santa Fe Drive boutique with a local focus. It’s an…
Matt Stone and Trey Parker clearly aren’t keen on letting people produce Cannibal! The Musical, the first project they worked on together back when they were at the University of Colorado in 1993 — but apparently if the offer’s right, they’re not totally opposed to it, either. “It’s interesting,” says…
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines: The Rocky Mountain Rod & Custom Show is back for its fifteenth year of celebrating all that’s shiny, chromed-out and whitewalled. Today through Sunday, more than 500 vehicles from across the nation will be at the Colorado Convention Center, along with dozens of auto…
The late Sam Arnold, patriarch of the Fort Restaurant, started the annual Farolito Lighting tradition many years ago, and it’s never gone away, perhaps because its natural simplicity reminds us of the good side of the holidays. There’s a little noshing on cookies and cocoa in the outdoor courtyard, a…
This afternoon, the Boulder Library’s Canyon Theater will be transformed into a 1940s radio studio by the Society for Creative Aging’s community theater group, VIVA. The troupe, made up of actors in their sixties and older, will bring to life Frank Capra’s classic film It’s a Wonderful Life as a…
No one can accuse zombies of getting the short end of the pop-culture stick, but let’s be real: They can only get more ridiculous. With Kill! Kill! Or Die!, the undead meme reaches the natural next stage — and a physical one — when it’s reborn as a rock opera…
Dan Rollman’s interest in setting world records began when he was ten years old and got his first copy of the Guinness Book of World Records. He loved the idea of someday becoming the world’s best at something, but when he looked into it, he discovered that there’s a lot…
It’s okay to be afraid of opera; lots of people are. But here’s the thing: Opera with a drink (or two, or three) in you is a whole different thing. New Yorker Eve Orenstein of Opera on Tap, which started in Manhattan and is slowly expanding to cities across the…
No trains are pulling up to Union Station these days, but there are still trains chugging along inside the station — in the basement, where two clubs will be showing off their layouts at Model Railroad Open Houses tonight. The 76-year-old Colorado Midland Railway is operated by the Denver Society…
Eating, more or less, is the hallmark of the holidays (not to mention a cornerstone of the e-card industry) — Thanksgiving, in particular. So, whether your family-time is a drunken-uncle disaster, a Leave it to Beaver affair or something in between, at least you have some turkey, gravy and mashed…
If your favorite part of any skate or snowboard video is seeing people fall down and get hurt, then we’ve got a treat for you: This week, we found three locally-produced clips full of brutal bails, courtesy of the new Royal Stain H-DTS Down to Skate promo, Never Summer Smash!…
Colorado Uncovered, a new book of photographs by Darrell Pierson, shows models stripped down everywhere from the Colorado Convention Center to Mesa Verde National Park. “Most women would rather be photographed as works of art than pinups,” says Sherry Whitney, explaining the origins of Body Photage, the company she started…
To look at the faces carved into the old tree trunk at Sloan’s Lake Park playground, you wouldn’t think any pain was associated with the project — the faces smile widely, laughing as children use them to climb to the top of the stump. Yet, sculptor Corrina Espinosa created the…
Time ran out last week for Adam Leech on Kickstarter.com. The Colorado Springs entrepreneur known for his vintage clothing and collectibles store, Leechpit, had been trying to raise a large sum of money to complete his documentary, A Nickel and a Nail: The Original Hobo Nickel Story…
As we prepare for the commercial holiday that follows a little thing called Thanksgiving, the debate over whether stores should begin opening at midnight on Black Friday is raging. But when and where did Black Friday come from? What does it really mean? We asked Darrin Duber-Smith, Marketing Professor at…
